I have recently installed to systems, a laptop and a desktop, from scratch, with sid/kde 3.5. (a minimum non-desktop install from the latest stable net-install cd image. Changing the apt config files to sid, doing an update / dist-upgrade getting kde 3.5 from alioth) Both systems exhibits the same strange startup behaviour:
When logging a user on to KDE 3.5, through kdm, the process stops at the peripherals icon for about 15 seconds whereafter the screen goes black and the user is returned to the kdm login screen. Login into twm from kdm, and executing startkde (as root), starts up kde just fine. Here comes the weird part of the story: From then on it is just possible to normally log into kde from kdm (after exiting kde and twn). The only way to start kde as a non-root user seems to be to first start up kde as root, stopping kde and then login in normally through kdm. I don't see any log entries indicating that something is wrong. Exactly the same processes are running before and after starting/stopping kde from twm. I suspect a rights issue somewhere but is somewhat stuck! Googling for answers hasn't provided any hints. On yet another system, running sid/kde 3.4, I have upgraded kde to 3.5 and it is working just fine. Any ideas? Thanks in advance Jan Schledermann -- ** Do not use the reply-to address. It'll end up in the trash can ** Mail me at: janATschledermann.or"REMOVE_THIS"g -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]